embarrassed - Story 40089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat surged through Brenda as Mr. Miller strolled into his yard, clearly seeing her and her clipboard. She hadn't even finished the first post, and she was already regretting her impulsive purchase of a power auger.

She attempted a breezy wave, but her arm felt leaden. Her mouth felt dry.

She knew his reputation for being meticulous about the neighborhood's aesthetics. The thought of his disapproval, his polite but pointed questioning, made her stomach churn.

Her mind raced, searching for an acceptable explanation, a way to minimize the impact of her project.

She wished she was anywhere else.

Emotion: embarrassed

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion embarrassed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 embarrassed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the embarrassed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the embarrassed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.420
`尴尬`	0.341
`C`	0.333
`culp`	0.262
`🤦`	0.256

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.321
`আনন্দের`	-0.230
`seemingly`	-0.227
`і`	-0.225
`আনন্দে`	-0.224